Best Ever Meat Sauce

Best Ever Meat Sauce is a homemade pasta sauce that is ready in just 30 minutes and bursting with flavor. This easy meat sauce recipe is quick enough for a weeknight dinner and impressive enough for entertaining.

Meat Sauce Recipe

A quick meat sauce packed with flavor that takes only 30 minutes to make? Yes! No more store bought pasta sauce laden with sugars and preservatives necessary! Best Ever Meat Sauce is not only quick and easy to make, it’s bursting with flavor too! Serve with pasta, zucchini noodles or even top pizza dough for a hearty dinner. Best Ever Meat Sauce makes four heaping cups of a hearty sauce so you can serve some tonight and have more for another day. Perfect for a weeknight dinner and impressive enough for your Sunday Supper! Italian just got easier!

I must admit, that being from an Italian family, I had never tasted jarred pasta sauce until I was in college. Yes, college! My mom and grandma always made, not just homemade pasta sauce, but homemade pasta too! So you can imagine my reaction when it was my college roommate’s turn to make us all dinner and she just boiled pasta and heated up jarred sauce? I was in shock, to say the least! But, hey, she tried and I happily ate it. It was a culinary adventure! But I am back to my roots with making homemade pasta sauces. And many times the pasta isn’t homemade but when it is everyone gets excited! And my grandchildren always want to help make the pasta with me. Now that what I call making delicious memories together, right?

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Best Ever Meat Sauce

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

30 mins

Total Time

40 mins

 

Best Ever Meat Sauce is a homemade pasta sauce that is ready in just 30 minutes and bursting with flavor. This easy meat sauce recipe is quick enough for a weeknight dinner and impressive enough for entertaining. 

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: meat sauce

Servings: 8

Author: Gwynn Galvin

Ingredients

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tsp. dried basil
• 1 tsp. dried oregano
• 1 tsp. kosher salt
• 1/4 cup red wine
• 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes
• 1 cup water
• 1 Tbs. sugar

Instructions

1. Heat saucepot over medium-high heat and cook ground beef, garlic, basil, oregano and kosher salt until browned, stirring occasionally.
2. Add red wine and cook 1 minute.
3. Stir in crushed tomatoes, water and sugar.

4. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, until sauce has thickened, about 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.

5. Serve over pasta, zucchini noodles and/or on pizza dough.

Recipe Notes

Recipe makes 4 heaping cups of meat sauce. Serve some with pasta tonight and have more for another day or freeze remaining sauce for next week!